skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Charlie Munger was an advocate of residential buildings that have virtual windows (letting in "artificially created sunlight") instead of actual windows. Before his death he proposed such a residential building for UCSB:

https://news.ucsb.edu/2021/020455/munger-hall-qa

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15378-exclusive...

Needless to say, conventionally minded experts of all stripes vociferously objected to it, including architects:

https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/the-munge...

...But I wonder if maybe cities should conduct small-scale tests of Munger's ideas to find out if they help put all that abandoned office space to good use.
As I understand, yes: but that'll be inferior to the original, since it won't have ligatures or hinting or anything. It's a lot of work for not a lot of benefit.
Apple announces new iPad Pro: OLED display, M4 chip, thinner redesigned chassis
That's not what it said. It said that if the trunk fails to close and then you tell it to close again, it will use more force.
Perhaps they meant to say "studying for a few weeks to solve fun puzzles, after getting a CS degree from Stanford, moving to a city where a basic apartment costs $1 million, and getting 8-10 years FAANG experience, also like half that $400k is stock not cash"

But no licensing!
> Nobody will live in the projects except people who have no way to escape.

There are more people for whom ex-commercial housing would work - than there are (or ever will be) units to house them.

Even in a tough neighborhood I'd of done it, if I had work nearby. I once parked the I was living in my employer's parking lot.
Just as with movies, it seems like we’re witnessing the death of mid-budget (AA) games.
Realistically, what’s this mean for Bluesky? If Jack’s out, I’m supposing the writing’s on the wall and there’s not much else to do but write the incredible journey blog.
I can't say the same, Hi-Fi Rush was incredible and I want so many more genre bending games like it.
Honestly, as somebody who is hiring senior devs I can't imagine not doing a coding interview.

Unfortunately, it is very hard to judge somebody's coding ability in discussion alone. You can sort of get the idea whether they have or don't have experience and whether they have luck being asked about topics they know (although you can help your luck just knowing a lot of stuff).

I have seen a lot of candidates who were quite smooth talkers but could not code their way out of a paper bag. Mind I do not mean remembering some complex algorithm. The task is usually some relatively simple data manipulation so that I can see the person approaching the problem, asking questions, getting involved in some discussion, etc.

The task is usually ambiguous a bit and this is explicitly stated so that the candidate is actually expected to get stuck, don't know things and have to talk to me to get the problem solved. You would be surprised how many candidates do not listen or can't follow simple advice even when I am almost giving them the solution on a platter.

The trouble is there is a lot of interviewers and many interviewers do not have a basic plan of what they want to achieve with the coding interview. What they want to learn about the candidates. Those interviews tend to suck.

What also sucks is candidates who come to the interview completely unprepared, unable to answer most of the questions or get any progress on the programming tasks and then spew misinformation on the Internet about how supposedly all coding interviews are stupid.

I guess if you can code you may have some misses, usually along with some hits. Sometimes you are out of luck. The point is not that you need to get every job that you apply to, it is enough to get one of them.

But if you can't code at all or you apply to positions that are clearly out of your league, you get rejected on all these interviews. And then what you do? Some people go to write on the Internet how all interviews are stupid without ever considering how they contributed to all those failed interviews, how real life works (ie. 90% of everything is crap including 90% of interviews) and how the situation might look from the other side.
I sincerely doubt it's actually broken
what do you mean by "just"? millions if not billions of USD profit @ the 3 titles cited between the brackets? people play GTA V till these days, even Skyrim...

either the way, hope it paves the way for more small studios titles...
nix run nixpkgs#pyspread

Not saying Nix(os) Is The Way, but sometimes it does ok.
What is extraordinary about the Microsoft games unit and Xbox is how immune their senior staff are to the repercussions of their bad decisions. They're certainly not taking responsibility for the failed gamepass experiment, trashing the Xbox brand, or the acquisitions they now regret since successfully closing Activision.

Failing upwards has never been so conspicuously obvious as it is in modern corporate America thanks to the pervasive use of social media.
This reminds me of a video a few years back of a man sticking his head in the minivan auto-closing door (trying to prove it was safe) and getting stuck.

https://youtu.be/3bk6SJLSQY8?si=TWbstTXiihdK05Yh
Wait til they learn you can initiate booting the whole OS through DHCP + tftp.
The good stuff: https://dotfiles.github.io/inspiration/
He posted shorts which AFAIK doesn't share any ad revenue with creators.
Apparently not.

.deb file: http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/r/rpi-connec...

It contains two Go executables in its /usr/bin path: rpi-connect and rpi-connectd.
In person, with a small group of people who naturally like each other enough to want to be helpful while keeping anyone senior enough to be arrogant out. That's how you get a year worth of work done in a month.
Theyve released 5 bad games since prey
> the best use of AI would be a "super-competent colleague that knows absolutely everything about my whole life, every email, every conversation I’ve ever had, but doesn’t feel like an extension."

Not if I can help it. That comes off like a threat.
Quick, someone let James Hoffman know!
Surely a compression fracture also counts as broken? It doesn’t have to be actually severed.
The efficiency gap metric argues that you should minimize the amount of “wasted” votes which in essence means maximize the number of competitive seats. That seems like a really reasonable approach whereas any other approach results in mechanisms that are advantageous to incumbent parties instead of improving the democratic process so that the parties are responsive to their constituents.

Basically any process where the parties are picking their voters is an unreasonable gerrymander and undemocratic.

As for the racial discussion, it kind of doesn’t matter. Partisan gerrymandering is also unconstitutional. SCOTUS has just deemed it to be an unsolvable issue rather than trying to actually put safeguards in place.
The battery case might be molded plastic but inside it’s probably just a wad of 18650s that can be replaced.
A Medium-Agnostic Taxonomy of Notifications
Corporate prioritization is the ultimate cookie cutter, doomed to produce the most generic thing possible.
But if they are going to cancel it anyway I would rather at least code and build just to have fun and at least have a prototype rather than doing the boring work. Also I feel like I can't get into right frame of mind of problem solving by writing a doc compared to if I am coding.
I've also increased the max chars for the description/comment from 300 to 600.
Yeah, I broke my hand (bone above pinky) and could use my hand and fingers without issue the first hours.

The day after though...
Coffee fracking IRL
>The engineer told him the frunk increases in pressure every single time it closes and detects resistance, Judkins said. It’s going to assume you want to close the frunk and maybe something like a bag is getting in the way, which would make it close harder.

>Using this information, that means it closed on my finger harder than my hand and way harder than my arm,” the YouTuber wrote.

Maybe that's not a good idea
However, I've never been able to actually discuss anything substantial here beyond two or three exchanges at most, usually.

Where is the equivalent of the Usenet three-month-long thread?

The karma points are not transferable, which ticks off the checkbox under the silo column.
I've been expecting a ebike that could take the tool eco-system batteries: DeWalt 60v, Eco 58v, Milwaukee 18v. Probably would need to dock several of them with the exception of the Eco.
We have better tech. For our customers, this translates directly into more savings.

We also have less setup and overhead than most of the other companies in the space. many of them come in with recommendations for system changes that you need to implement, and which they then charge you for; we take about ten minutes to set up and then generate savings automatically.
Not even more efficient. Just cheaper. Efficiency implies there's no drop in quality.
Ships and planes are so different in their regulations and safety measures, it's not even close or comparable.
Django-harlequin, a launcher for Terminal-based SQL IDE Harlequin
Back button works for me in Chrome but not Firefox (Windows, 125.0.3, 64-bit).
Joke's on you, he works on engineering software used in a highly safety critical industry! /s
That's probably wise. I wish there was a way to add metadata to the subkeys. I want to have one set of subkeys for Proton Mail and another set for absolute privacy. I want to mark them as "leaked" keys somehow. Not quite revoked but close.

I read the OpenPGP standard and it seems to have some kind of "notation" packets. Seems to be somewhat related to metadata but I can't figure out how it works or even what its purpose is and it looks like nothing ever uses that anyway.
Ways to Think about AGI
I've adopted a very simple approach: 80 words per "paragraph". I am now experimenting with computing the embeddings of each sentence and try to detect topic segments. But the simple approach yields pleasant segments AFAIK.
I tend to think yes. If the initial attack as i understand it, is from a dhcp server handing out poisoned options, then if a client is set-up as static from the get-go it'll never request a lease to begin with and, well, there you have it.
Now let’s see him try it with a plain old trunk and have his friend slam the trunk down.

What did he think would happen after watching it break the stick. Are we supposed to feel bad for him and be angry with Tesla?
Because there is no free market in housing whatsoever.

Owning land doesn't give you the right to build anything. You need planning permission - which means permission from the local council, local homeowners and consultation, etc. which gives the NIMBY attitude so much power.

There aren't piles of empty houses. There aren't enough houses at all.
Absolutely 100%. There is no reason why office buildings cannot be rezoned and regulations loosened to allow for all office buildings to be changed into affordable housing.

The only problems are a lack of political will with regard to zoning and codes. A common retort is, "well some apartments won't get access to natural light" or "utilities are in one place".

In many countries where housing security is tight, there are people who live inside apartments without windows.

Secondly, share housing where kitchens and bathrooms were used communely (aka a dorm) used to exist for many working class poor. Again, if the choice is the street versus a share house the choice is obvious.

No one said affordable housing needs to provide natural light, private bathrooms, and kitchens. Until the political will exists to return to what used to be normal for America and in many respects the entire world homelessness will continue.

Sometimes a roof over ones head and a place to sleep is all the homeless want. Price it accordingly.
FTA:

> "Our intention is that Raspberry Pi Connect will remain free (as in beer) for individual users with non-relayed connections, with no limit on the number of devices. We don’t yet know how many people will need to relay their traffic through our TURN servers; we’ll keep an eye on the use of bandwidth and decide how to treat these connections in future."

So yes it is possible to only provide servers for the initial connection / negotiating the best direct path between server and client; but they expect some non-zero percent of connections to need to actually have the whole thing going through their servers, and an open source software that doesn't offer that would therefore not be able to support that portion of usage.

edit v2: my original edit was too verbose to be worth keeping, I think, so I'll just write a TLDR of the idea below and if you want to read my rambling 600 word elaboration that I'm too lazy to rewrite more concisely it's here: https://pastebin.com/67iQQvtC

Dynamic DNS service of some kind could be responsible for making sure the client can always reach the server's latest public IP, with the following options:

1. DDNS hosted on server by the open source tool (i.e. abandoning the no server needed hope)

2. Using using an existing free DDNS service (potential trust issues)

3. Users providing their own domain for DDNS, hosted by a domain provider with API functionality for changing A records so that the new remote desktop tool can do that directly

4. Finding a domain provider who offers such granular API access that the open source tool could own a single domain, and allow many people access to update over the API their individual subdomains, or sub-subdomains (but even if you can find one that technically offers this kind of API access, they might not be happy with someone paying for a single domain and then letting thousands of users all have individual API keys sending updates any time their public IP changes...)
Charlie Munger was a weird freak who fancied himself an architect. The only thing that qualified him to design a ridiculous building for UCSB was donating an insane amount of money to UCSB.
I love my Chevy Bolt EUV. Normal door handles inside and out. Manual open/close trunk. Normal window controls. Normal infotainment unit with carplay/AA. Buttons and knobs for volume, HVAC, and hazard lights. Normal stick controls for turn signals and wipers.

It’s a great, simple EV and my only knock against it is the slow max charging speed making it not ideal for multiple stop road trips.
Understanding landau levels is important for optimizing light/matter interactions to improve signal to noise in future chips that incorporate light and electron motion for computation gains.
Deep dive into the shared-storage of AutoMQ, vs. Kafka/Tiered Storage
I don't play games at all so I'm very out of the loop but gamepass was a failure?

I have friends at Microsoft who worked on it and they all seemed to think it was going well last I checked (about a year ago).
Companies that specialise in this do exist, the one I'm most aware of is Electric Classic Cars in the UK (https://www.electricclassiccars.co.uk), who started/specialise in rear-engine VWs, original Minis, and original Land Rover Defenders.

Obviously very tailored for a nostalgic UK market, but if there's not equivalent companies in the US and elsewhere I'd be surprised!
The federal government did take over GM somehow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reor...
For reasons that are too hairy to go into here C doesn't "really" have a string type (yeah, yeah pendants, I know about fixed strings etc.).

It just has arrays of char, which you pinky promise will end in a \0 for things that expect strings.

By declaring that yes, this function really must have that terminating \0 a sufficiently smart compiler can statically analyze some errant use of functions expecting terminated strings. I haven't looked into this new feature, but I assume that's what it's doing.

If you mean why is the "__attribute__" syntax not declaring such a thing adjacent to the function, the answer is that this allows for shoving the . extended syntax into standard C in a mostly backwards compatible way.
Keynote: Ship It a Roadmap for Putting Nx into Production – ElixirConf EU 2024
I think that at least some of this comes about because it's still relatively early days for the form-factor. As the industry matures, as it becomes more cutthroat everything will become more comodified and therefore standardised.

Look at some of the cars of (say) the late-19thC where not even the steering wheel was standard. So, while e-bikes are probably not quite that early stage right now, they've not advanced terribly far from the plain vanilla bicycle yet.
I was just about to suggest he same thing
Attack assumes that someone already controls DHCP. If bad actor controls DHCP you have a bigger problem.
Thanks for the pointer, but I think that's probably not the particular story I was thinking of.

The intro to Cory Doctorow's story says he wrote it in 2007.

The story I'm thinking of was probably a short in an anthology that I must've bought in paperback in the early-to-mid 1990s.

It's a neat idea to parallel-invent, or to reference.

(I donated all my SF books around 2000, but now I should see whether I can find the book on Amazon or somewhere.)

Edit: It might've been in "Mirrorshades: An anthology of Cyberpunk", edited by Bruce Sterling, 1998.
Related? Python in Excel:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-started-with-...
Having lived through a housing crash, and long before that a time of much cheaper houses.. I would say wait and see.

One of the reasons why people freak out about the prices of homes is there is often pressure to get one right now. I am moving, I got married, I had a(nother) kid. These are reasons I bought a house in my life and in retrospect I can tell you I did not need to buy a house.

In your life it's hard to make a decision on the time frame of house prices (or even market cycles). I am not sure how to tell someone maybe they should wait five years. But clearly sometimes that is the best thing to do.

It does not make a lot of sense for homes to sell for so much more then they can rent for. It happens all the time but it is not sustainable. It also happens that their are housing shortages but they don't last forever. People build.
Kent State shootings: The 1970 student protests that shook the US
That’s a sentence you can say if you don’t find yourself or a loved one on that plane.
I imagine the OP is layering views on top of each other and wants them to all respond to clicks. I could imagine a sticky “please log in” banner at the top of a view, something like that.
There's no way to disable the wifi on my LG smart TV either (any guides I've seen seem to point to a setting I don't have) although I've been meaning to pop the back panel and just yank the module which is on a card. The oven probably is more likely to have separate wifi card than my TV.
It shows a problem in thinking. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." is a good approach for solving some problems, like electronic power trains and unmanned rockets, but a bad one for others, like automatically closing trunks, self driving, and getting a manned mission to Mars.
What do you mean by "true metrics"?
Ask HN: Local First with GraphQL?
Had a minivan door close on my shoulder. The censor retracted it immediately, but I still felt a fairly decent impact from it. Definitely wouldn’t want to experience that with my head or anything more crushable.
I'm not a fan of watching injury videos, so I'm not going to watch it, but if the effect is the same as those putting things like carrots in the hood while it's closing, I'd be shocked if it wasn't.
I did not believe you and just typed it on OSX, half a minute later the app was ready for me to use.

nix run nixpkgs#pyspread
[0/1 built, 3/113/132 copied (1311.8/1721.6 MiB), 280.4/300.7 MiB DL] fetching llvm-16.0.6 from https://cache.nixos.org

https://pasteboard.co/P1eh7B7W8C9R.png
Used to feel this way on other teams. Almost as if you were expected to write them for the sake of writing them (cargo cult engineering).

Now on a team of many OG Googlers (15+ years tenure) and Design Docs only exist when they’re needed (something that touches multiple systems, something that’s obviously complicated with many trade offs, etc) Otherwise it’s just “write the CLS.”
Apple is just being slick. The M4 is a slightly tweaked M3.
I can absolutely see the safety argument for distance from a window. Fair! But I will say, as someone who made his windowless basement his bedroom even though I had other options in my home, I love a super dark space to sleep.
Bill Nye is still around and so are his contemporaries. If you want intelligent narration about stuff like this, here's some recommendations:

Space focused:

https://www.youtube.com/@NASAGoddard

https://www.youtube.com/@EuropeanSpaceAgency

https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime

https://www.youtube.com/@DrBecky

https://www.youtube.com/@whatdamath

General science (still plenty of space):

https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder

https://www.youtube.com/@fermilab

https://www.youtube.com/@ScienceAsylum
The site embeds the YouTube video so we can hear the audio, so I could show the video as well, just not sure where :)

Perhaps split in 2 columns on wide displays (video left, transcript right), and portrait (e.g. mobile phone), video on top and transcript below it?
I believe the door is closed by a normal motor? When an electric motor encounters resistance it draws more current. I assume they just measure the motor current and back away when it exceeds some threshold, increasing that threshold each time.
To add to this: I have been in the position to push for a 6-7 figure investment in a product, and have passed on companies, because they made it so insanely frustrating just to give them my money, let alone get a quote. Meeting after meeting, powerpoint after powerpoint. Some had literally zero way to pay, even for a lower tier, so there was no way I could try out the product at all. We skipped them all. You know what we did go with? A hodge-podge of AWS services, with on-demand pricing, that definitely was more expensive than the SaaS and took us more time and manpower to get working. It wasn't a niche solution, either.

Often we don't need the whole company to be locked into whatever the Enterprise feature is. Maybe we only need a single feature, and that has a given dollar value for us, and for the provider.

SSO for example costs the provider almost nothing in terms of compute/network, and little in terms of development and support; so why not let people pay a-la-carte for SSO? Cheap enough to be worth it, not so expensive as to be a turn-off. You could have one bulk price for SSO, or even charge per authenticated user! The point is to make it flexible, but still extract some money for that feature that hardly costs you anything to support.

Another example: let them have complex IAM (groups, roles, etc) for one price, and SSO costs extra. OR they can call to negotiate. This way they can pay now a-la-carte, or they can try to get a better price, or they can just settle for not using the feature. But it gets them on your platform, giving you money, in some form or another. Add up all the a-la-carte features and you get a bloated quote, but you can offer discounts for package deals.
In the Netherlands (Europe?) raw milk is forbidden, but raw cheese is not.
Deaths per trip is a bad comparison. As you can see from those numbers, Americans take about 1000 car trips per year and many fewer plane trips (hard to get exact numbers based on that since it’s global and planes can have dozens-hundreds of people).
> I would say wait and see

How long to wait? Asking in Canadian.
It's like destroying a factory when the chips it produces do not sell.
I know what caniuse is but I have no idea what a webview is. What is a webview?
Trouble with my ('95) Corolla is that it's the body that's showing its age. (Rust, and not the good kind.) The ICE is just fine and probably good for another 1/2-million km, but the whole thing has got to go soon.